The venue is called The Basement, located in Nashville. It's probably barely over 100 capacity. Super small place.. maybe slightly bigger than Velvet Lounge's standing area. Anyway, Metallica played an unannounced show there the other night, I guess as a warm up for their Bonnaroo set (Bonnaroo is an hour south of here), for a crowd of 120 fan club members and 'in the know' people. My friend got in (he is one of the latter group-- apparently a few people got a phone call that was similar to "Come to The Basement right now.. I can't tell you why, but goddammit just come") and while he shares the "Metallica's old shit is sweet but their new shit is gay" attitude that we all probably could agree with, he said it was fucking awesome.. that they were super tight, loud as fuck.. and tore through a bunch of old stuff. Apparently there were like, 8 tour buses around perimeter, and the owner of The Basement, Mike Grimes (also owns Grimey's, the upstairs record store) was absolutely terrified all day that word was gonna get out, and that there'd be some metalhead riot outside his business. Anyway, I guess the show went on without any problems.. And I'm jealous as shit!
A picture of James & Lars with some of Nashville's Finest Riot Protectors
"Master of Puppets" from The Basement
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